Quote

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Robert Fulghum

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
World
Needed
Wasn
Books
Church
Book

More quotes by Robert Fulghum

Image
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Robert Fulghum
Image
And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
Robert Fulghum
Image
The examined life is no picnic.
Robert Fulghum
Image
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Robert Fulghum
Image
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
Robert Fulghum
Image
An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
Robert Fulghum
Image
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
Robert Fulghum
Image
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
Robert Fulghum
Image
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.
Robert Fulghum
Image
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
Robert Fulghum
Image
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
Robert Fulghum
Image
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
Robert Fulghum
Image
I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
Robert Fulghum
Image
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum
Image
to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
Robert Fulghum